If you have thought that you have already understood all things that you need to know in the enlightenment phase, then you have never done IT managers. How do you successfully transition to IT managers? The skills introduced below should help you avoid many errors. The transition from a pure technician to an IT manager is a long road full of hard and twists. Steven Crane who has been fighting for sixteen years in IT industry is a deep understanding. He used to serve as a strong large company (such as Gillette, Pike Company) for eight years. During that day, he succeeded in responding to a lot of challenges from management. In order to help the new IT managers avoid the mistakes that have been committed to him, he introduced the fifteen skills to you according to their own experience.
Cultivate management capabilities
1. Read the "One Minute Manager" series of "one minute manager" written in Ken Blanchard. According to the definition of Ken Blanchard, the so-called one-minute manager refers to managers who do not need to spend a long time, apply three simple management steps to achieve good results. 2. Understand the rules and regulations of your company, establish a good relationship with your colleagues and superiors. Listen carefully to their suggestions. Managers are usually willing to help other managers. 3. Discover and understand your weaknesses and deficiencies as soon as possible. Remember, you can make up your shortcomings through training. 4, learn to control the budget to the minimum, let everyone know which places are saved in the funds. Skills with the company's executive personnel to enhance communication 5, do not report the problems in every day of work to themselves. On the contrary, it is necessary to find out what you repeated and find a solution. Then ask several different solutions to seek superiors. 6. If you do a project as good as you support, you must separate the two works. Just calculate the new employee's salaries within the cost of the entire project, you can recruit new employees for the prevention of new projects. Don't let your employees fall into the ongoing project while doing support work. 7, detailed record, timely report. Requires members of the project team to fill in the time record so you can understand where it is. These records will help them when you need to prove that the project work should be extended. Of course, with these records, you will be much easier to write monthly reports to the company's supervisor. 8. When the company's system has problems, you have to know your team's task is to restore the system normally. To ensure the in place of the critical system's disaster recovery plan, and can restore other items. Incentive employee skills 9. If the company does not have a formal service platform agreement, you find a large number of service phones in actual work to answer, then create a centralized service platform. If necessary, you can seek outsourcing. If you really need an outsourcing, you must formulate a service level agreement. 10, spend time to motivate your employees to succeed, and exclude disadvantages from other departments as much as possible. 11. Learn "Monkey Management": When employees ask for help, let them know how they should continue to operate. Don't help employees share their work, because you will find that work will never finish. 12, at least one to two performance evaluation of employees every year. Let employees have clear goals and help them to achieve their goals. 13, regularly convene a group meeting. Since the task is always one after another, everyone looks so busy. If you want to do this is some difficult. If you are absolutely necessary, you can choose to work for lunch, just don't forget to provide you with a sandwich. 14. At least every quarter invites team members to go out to eat once. If the budget control is good, it is no problem to cope with this flower. 15. To know that the sum of all employees is the greatest work output of the entire group. Don't just establish a high standard for yourself, I hope that all team members can do with you. To praise and encourage them according to their actual situation and train them for their shortcomings. Successful Association Successful Management Skills Help Crane has become an independent management consultant. Now he helps many small and medium-sized companies plan IT electronic sales system and e-commerce service strategy. These techniques described above are still helping him.
